Let me begin this essay by stating that I am a retired English teacher of 34 years experience and believe that I have treated all of my students fairly and equitably. Three times I had been named into Whos Who Among American Teachers and two of those nominations have been by minority students, one black and one Hispanic. Those students realized that my classroom standards were just as tough on them as they were on the majority Caucasian students and that I gave them no favoritism, slack or handicap for their minority-status ethnicity. I had always refused to dumb down my curriculum (Grammar, Vocabulary, Literature, Writing Skills) to accommodate students that lacked motivation, desire, curiosity, cooperation, respect for teacher authority and a willingness to learn. A year before I retired in 1999 my Middle Schools English Department had a special curriculum meeting and the Administration and my Department Supervisor wanted to change and modernize the English curriculums literature textbooks. The choice eventually narrowed down to two distinct textbook series (grades six-to-eight) and my schools nine English teachers voted on which companys series to incorporate into the schools English curriculum. Obviously administrative fiat (and pressure and trends from the State Department of Education) was more important than teacher democratic input and the English Departments overwhelmingly selected first choice was abruptly discarded because the other more politically correct literature textbook series from the administratively preferred company happened to have more cultural diversity and subsequently was more multicultural.
The Dissertation on The Appropriate Teaching Method for the Students of Primary School in Bangladesh
An Assignment On Eng 341: History of English Language Teaching Topic: The Appropriate Teaching Method for the Students of Primary School in Bangladesh Submitted to A.T.M Sajedul Huq Assistant Professor Department of English and Humanities University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Submitted by Mehnaz Haque ID: 101013023 Department of English and Humanities University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Date of ...
For thirty-four years I had loved teaching imaginative literature featuring such accomplished authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Alexander Dumas, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Washington Irving, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, S.E. Hinton, George Eliot, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, O. Henry and James Thurber. Apparently the fact that all of the aforementioned authors were white was a major problem because most of them had been effectively excluded in the newly acquired literature texts. The old literature texts and program were too white-oriented and were not consistent with New Jersey and USA politically correct trends in multicultural education.
The new eighth grade literature textbook featured on its cover a painting of Sam Adoqueis Portrait of Rockney C. A statement inside the text indicated that Sam Adoquei was born in the West African country of Ghana and that Adoquei was a contemporary artist that loved painting landscapes. Old textbooks might have featured on their covers works by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh or Leonardo DaVinci but in this day and age those great contributing artists to Western Civilization have been demoted (in public schools) in deference to people like Sam Adoquei of Ghana, West Africa. I must admit that the new eighth grade administratively selected (and faculty overruled) literature eighth grade textbook did have a token representation of established white authors. However the bulk of the contributors had names like Gloria Gonzalez (Cuban American), Luci Tapahonso (Navajo Indian), Yoshiko Uchida (Oriental American), Gwendolyn Brooks (Black American), Gary Soto (son of California migrant workers), William Saroyan (Armenian American), Maya Angelou (Black American), Diane Mei Lin Mark (Hawaiian American), Julio Noboa Polanco (bilingual poet), Judith Ortiz Cofer (Puerto Rican), Langston Hughes (Black American), Julia Alvarez (Hispanic), Ophelia Rivas (Mexican), (Nereida Roman (Hispanic), Rudolfo A. Anaya (Mexican American), Esmerela Santiago (Puerto Rican), Wing Tex Lum (Chinese poet), Naomi Shihab Nye (Palestinian), Ved Mehta (from India), Paul Yee (American Chinese) and Li-Young Lee (Chinese).
The Essay on Earliest American Literature was English and Literary
Earliest American writers were Englishmen who came to Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the permanent settlements of the English in America. These writers included John Smith, the author of A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Hapned in Virginia Since the First Planting of that Colony, which is now resident in the South part thereof, till the last returne from thence; ...
There is no doubt in my mind that multicultural education is dumbing down American public schools. Most of the obscure authors being presented to American students in the name of cultural diversity have produced works that have weak vocabulary, shallow plots, lackluster characters, non-intellectual subject matter and demonstrably unsophisticated writing skills.
Yet these minority writers (I wouldnt call all of them authors) are presented to nave and impressionable eighth graders as valuable contributors to literature when their works pale in comparison to those of great authors that are presently being systematically removed from literature textbooks and gradually being replaced by (in most cases) obscure minority authors. The same type of phenomenon is happening in middle and high school History classes as is happening in Literature courses. When Martin Luther King Day was established as a National Holiday celebrated in January George Washington and Abraham Lincoln had to be diminished in stature to accommodate MLK on the school calendar. The traditional Washingtons Birthday and Lincolns Birthday were shrewdly consolidated into Presidents Day with Washington and Lincolns regular February birthdays being abandoned to allow room for Martin Luther King Day in January on the school calendar. And now February (which used to almost exclusively belong to Washington and Lincoln) is now declared Black American Month in schools across the country. It is no wonder that American children now know more about Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson and George Washington Carver than they do about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Dwight David Eisenhower. History is being re-written by contemporary re-visionists that are attempting to diminish and discredit the accomplishments of white people and simultaneously magnify the attainments of lesser-known minority figures. One unique irony of all this multicultural and curricular craziness is that teachers are now being held accountable for higher standardized test scores and higher academic performance when their curriculums are being systematically watered down and diluted to allow for the implementation of multicultural education. Stories (by minority writers) in literature now have simple vocabulary and easy-to-understand (simplistic) themes, characters and plots. Teachers are now teaching down to the students level of achievement instead of challenging the kids seated in the desks to raise their level of performance up to the plateau of superior subject matter content being read and studied in the works of Poe, Twain and Orwell. And this sort of insane farce is happening in public schools all over America.
The Essay on To What Extent Should High School Students Be Allowed To
To What Extent Should High School Students be allowed to Exercise Freedom of Speech While on Campus I think that nowadays to deal with an issue of students free speech rights is a tough problem for High School administrators. The matter is that students free speech is protected by the First Amendment. Thus it means that students are allowed to exercise free speech while on campus. But what should ...
Teachers are presently compelled to propagate a system of American public school education that is both designed and destined to fail. Teachers are not only accountable for teaching weak subject matter content with low-academic challenge; they are also now held accountable to the State for students acquiring sufficient subject matter for the learners to pass state sponsored academic standardized tests. Whatever happened to individual (student) responsibility? Heres what is urgently needed to immediately improve American public school education: 1) The twenty-to-thirty percent of students (grades six to eight) that dont do homework, that dont do class work and that are chronic discipline problems should be placed in General Public Middle Schools. The remaining true self-motivated students should then attend and participate in Academic Public Schools having higher standards whose standardized test scores dont reflect the general performance of the un-motivated and disruptive students. Stop blaming teachers for educational ineffectiveness. Its the inefficient system that public school teachers are forced to work in that is responsible for low standardized test scores.
The Essay on Is Homeschooling More Beneficial for Students Than Public School?
Is homeschooling more beneficial for students than public school? Deciding whether homeschooling is good for your child or not, I’ve always been caught off guard with the topic. When I think about it, I wonder if my son would do better in public school with a bunch of strangers, or would he do better with me teaching him one-on-one with no distractions? 1. Social Interaction 2. Safety 3. ...
Only academic students should be required to take academic standardized tests. 2) Academic education should be an earned privilege and n ….
